Sunday, June 12, 2016

ISIS In The USA, Home To Roost

ISIS, the Islamic terrorist network, may have gone too far
this time. On Saturday, as reported by The Gateway Pundit,
“an Islamist extremist [Omar Mateen]murdered 20 people at a ‘Pulse’ gay nightclub in Orlando,
Florida.” Fifty people are now reported dead. Gays have long been a targeted
group for Islamic terrorists.

A
pro-Isis group has released a hit list with the names of more than 8,000 people
mostly Americans.

More
than 600-people live in Florida, and one security expert believes that many of
those targeted live in Palm Beach County and on the Treasure Coast.

The
"United Cyber Caliphate" that hacked U.S. Central Command, 54,000
Twitter accounts and threatened President Barack Obama is the same pro-Isis
group that's reportedly created a "kill list" with the names,
addresses and emails of thousands of civilian Americans.

Reports
of the list came to light online when Vocativ reported the list was shared via
the encrypted app, Telegram, and called on supporters to kill.

Former
FBI agent-turned lawyer Stuart Kaplan says the threat is especially alarming,
because the people on this list are civilians who don't have the security necessary
to protect themselves.

"It's
going to create some hysteria," he said.

But there was little hysteria in Hartford or Washington DC or
indeed within the legacy media, which generally has supported the gay community
at home.

Murderous assaults against gays, Christians and Jews abroad
do not inspire hysteria. Routine vicious assaults, both at home and abroad, trigger
the usual emotional delays while facts are sifted. Is there a connection
between the reality-denying Islam of President Barack Obama – peaceful, joyously
accommodating to Christians, Jews and Gays – and the vicious assaults on all
three groups in areas of the world where Islam is most faithfully practiced?
Who will dare say? Really, it’s anyone’s guess. By all means, let us gather
together all the facts. Reports immediately following the slaughter of gays in
Florida warned against drawing premature conclusions. People are hard at their
posts even now, sifting facts – preparing their political briefs, deflecting
responsibility from responsible parties to, say, the National Rifle
Association.

In Connecticut, the usual pro-gay politicians released the
usual media releases, and then returned to their comforting illusions. Hysteria
has a way of quickly dissipating in the land of the free and the home of the
brave: One day it’s this, another day that. Christian churches are burned, those
considered kafir, infidels, by
faithful Muslims are beheaded; Coptic Christians, a Christian remnant founded
by the Apostle and Evangelist Mark, have nearly been exterminated in the Muslim
world; Islam waves its bloody sword in the Middle East and northern Africa; Islamic
warriors kill non- Muslims who refuse to bow to the sword, rape and enslave
their women, abduct and re-program their young children. This is Islam, says Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi the founder and
leader of ISIS.

Although al-Baghdadi is not a graduate of prominent Islamic
seats of learning such as al-Azhar University in Cairo or the Islamic
University of Medina in Saudi Arabia , he is, according to Aaron Zelin of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy,
an Islamic minister “more steeped in traditional Islamic education than either
al-Qaeda's past and current leaders, Osama Bin Laden and Aymen al-Zawahiri,
both laymen, an engineer and doctor respectively.” This is not Islam, says Mr.
Obama, a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School, about which Bill Buckley, one of
the fathers of the modern conservative movement, once said, “I’d rather be
governed by the first 1,000 people chosen at random from the phone book than by
the Harvard Law School faculty.” So, take your pick.

Omar Mateen, a radicalized American Muslim, left a 911 message praising al-Baghdadi on the day of the slaughter, a bloody
theo-ideological fingerprint that only the willfully blind will ignore – or cleverly
discount by turning the religious sacrificial lambs to other purposes. Obama,
moments after the slaughter, said of Mr. Mateen, “This was a person filled with
hatred.” Wrong: Mr. Mateen was filled with a holy purpose.

Hillary Clinton, the almost certain Democratic nominee for President,
thought, post slaughter, this might be a propitious time to talk about gun control.
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy has twice condemned Congress, silent on the matter of
gun control. Previously, on the occasion of yet another mass murder of
civilians by two Islamic terrorists, Mr. Murphy offered tweeted condolences to terrorist
victims in San Bernardino – but no prayers. To those praying for the victims,
Mr. Murphy showed the back of his hand: “Your ‘thoughts,” he tweeted, “should be about steps to take to stop this
carnage. Your ‘prayers’ should be for forgiveness if you do nothing -- again.” All
the pointless prayers and thoughts, Mr. Murphy wrote, were a mask for inaction,
and “wholly insufficient.”Mr. Murphy announced he
was a veteran of Sandy Hook. “And what’s so offensive is in the wake of another
mass shooting, we have a gigantic menu of policy options that are at our
disposal to try to cut down on this carnage. And we’re not pursuing any of
them. We’re just absolutely frozen. Listen, maybe I shouldn’t tweet in anger,
but I’m angry that we’re not doing anything to try to stop this.”

And here we are yet again. Apart from passing federal laws
that are, to use Mr. Murphy’s words, a mere emotional sop and “a mask for
inaction,” what action should the United States take against ISIS that might “stop
this?”

Presidential emoticons – the shooter was “filled with anger”
– have never warded off attacks committed by terrorists faithful to the
revelations of Mohammed, peace be upon him, a live and pertinent connection regularly discounted as irrelevant
by Mr. Obama. The shooter, bending his knee to Minister al-Baghdadi and
faithful to the Koran was performing a religious duty. Almost all the sahabas,
the companions of the prophet Mohammed, assign deadly punishments for sodomy.
Some agree homosexuals should be burned and stoned, other that they should be
thrown from a height and then stoned; most agree their punishment should be
death.

The shooter, Omar Mateen, was employed by a large security firm, and he passed two sets of rigorous background checks: those administered by his employersand those administered by the gun shop at the point of sale. One can be almost certain that gun sales among gays in
Orlando, and elsewhere in the nation, will spike after the most deadly
terrorist attack in the United States. That is exactly what happened after the
Cheshire and Sandy Hook killings in Connecticut. In any case, no law promulgated by Mr. Murphy
could deprive a faithful observer of the Koran and the Hadith
on Sodomy of an overriding religious obligation.

How about this: Suppose we kill ISIS, utterly destroy its
presence in Northern Iraq and north Africa by any means necessary – and destroy
it in such a way that ISIS itself will KNOW it has been destroyed, a more efficacious
solution than gun control. Naturally, this cannot be done by sending drones to snuff
out al-Baghdadi. It would require lots of American boots on the ground – and the
vigorous support of Connecticut’s two U.S. Senators, Mr. Murphy and U.S. Senator Dick Blumenthal, who tweeted moments after the attack on gays in the United
States, “… my heart breaks for the families of loved ones lost or injured.”

Yes, ISIS has left broken hearts – real broken hearts – all over
the world. Why should Orlando escape the sword of Islam, or Connecticut, or any
other convenient target chosen by a militant, unmolested Islam, which has
nothing to fear but fear itself? Does Mr. Blumenthal seriously think ISIS fears his broken
heart?